Search of the Big Five

neuroticism & extraversion

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Costa and McCrae focused initially on the two main dimensions of < (2&)

openness to experience

Almost immediately after they discovered N and E, Costa and McCrae found a third factor

NEO-PI

revision of an earlier (1983) unpublished personality inventory that measured only the first three dimensions: N, E, and O

1985 inventory

last 2 dimensions were still the least well-developed scales and having no subscales associated with them

Revised NEO-PI

appeared in 1992 where A and C scales are fully developed

psychoticism

its measure (from Eysenck) were mapped on the low ends of agreeableness and conscientiousness but did not tap into openness

permanence

five factors show some ____________ with age

bell-shaped distribution

McCrae and Costa agreed with Eysenck that personality traits are bipolar and follow a ____________________

What is the structure of personality?

first central question of personality that they and other researchers were confident that the 5-factor theory answered